Archive - Advocating for the Ignorant: The Macmillans' crusade

A Gathering Storm

How the Spanish Civil War helped to turn the tide of British pacifism

Aug 28 •

The Quite Extraordinary Mrs Ross

Or: How to triumph as the Social Queen of Tuscany!

Aug 21 •

The 'crackpot curmudgeon'

Or how to spend a day with Thomas Carlyle

Aug 14 •

Truth and other casualties of war

Aug 6 •

July 2024

The Adorable Little World of Don Camillo

And its surprising connection to The Well Of Loneliness

Jul 29 •

The Women Members' Room

Remembering some of the first women MPs

Jul 22 •

A Moment of War

Laurie Lee in Spain

Jul 14 •

They Knew Mr Knight

Brilliant Mrs Whipple strikes again

Jul 8 •

June 2024

A little trip across Gloucestershire

From Northleach wool to Slad mills

Jun 28 •

All riots start in Kennington?

Or, why a Common became a Park!

Jun 16 •

It's 1940 and it's all kicking off!

Revisiting London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins

Jun 11 •

Fact or fiction? or a little bit of both?

Re-reading Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner

Jun 1 •

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